Hilario Duran & David Virelles - Front Street Duets (2022) [Hi-Res]

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Title: Front Street Duets
Year Of Release: 2022
Label: Alma Records HD
Genre: Latin Jazz
Quality: 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC; 24-bit/96kHz FLAC
Total Time: 00:41:56
Total Size: 180; 705 MB
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Front Street Duets is a compelling collaboration of two internationally acclaimed Cuban jazz pianists and composers, Hilario Duran and David Virelles. This collection of piano duets features the virtuosic playing of two musicians in peak form. Duran and Virelles have a musical and personal relationship dating back over two decades, but this is their most extensive project to date.

The Toronto-based Duran is a towering figure in Cuban music. Over a career now spanning over 45 years, he has won three Juno Awards and earned a Grammy nomination (for 2006’s From the Heart, by Hilario Durán and his Latin Big Band). His extensive discography includes work as a solo artist, and in duo, small group and big band settings, and he has also achieved distinction in the classical and chamber music worlds.

Now based in New York City after a stint in Toronto, Virelles records as a solo artist for such labels as ECM and Pi Recordings. He has collaborated extensively with such noted musicians as Andrew Cyrille, Bill Frisell, Henry Threadgill, Steve Coleman, and Ravi Coltrane, and last year he won the prestigious Herb Alpert Awards in the Arts.

When ALMA head and album producer Peter Cardinali presented the concept to Duran and Virelles a couple of years ago, both instantly agreed. “This album is very special because I had the privilege to work with David,” Duran explains. “He is the most important Cuban piano player of this new generation, and now he has so much success in the New York City scene, playing with great jazz stars and doing his own projects.”

Duran & Virelles

Tracklist:
1 01. Hilario Duran - Guajira for Two Pianos (05:28)
1 02. Hilario Duran - Challenge (03:47)
1 03. Hilario Duran - Punto Cubano #1 (04:47)
1 04. Hilario Duran - Danza Lucumi (05:17)
1 05. Hilario Duran - La Malanga (03:40)
1 06. Hilario Duran - Milonga Por Cuba (Dedicated to 7/11) (04:41)
1 07. Hilario Duran - Santos Suarez's Memories (05:17)
1 08. Hilario Duran - David's Tumbao (04:13)
1 09. Hilario Duran - Body and Soul (04:41)